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Name  
Vikas Kumar
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   PhD
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   142 Xizhimenwai Str., Beijing, China
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   100044
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Education and Appointments:

Education: 

2011 – 2016 : PhD Biology,  Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany                                                                   

2008 – 2010 : M.Sc. Bioinformatics , Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India                                    

2005 – 2008 : B.Sc. Zoology (Hons.), St. Xaviers College, Ranchi, India 

Employment: 

09/2018 – Current : Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 

11/2016 – 08/2018 : Postdoc Bioinformatics Scientist, Senckenberg, Biodiversity and climate research centre, Frankfurt, Germany 

09/2010 – 02/2011 : Project Assistant, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Research Interest:

I am an evolutionary computational biologist with boinformatics skills and interested in the field of paleogenomics, population genomics, phylogenomics, taxonomy, speciation, molecular evolution, selection, bioinformatics and transcriptomics.

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Seleted Publication:

Arnason U, Lammers F, Kumar V, Nilsson MA, Janke A (2018) Whole genome sequencing of the blue whale        and other rorquals find signatures for introgressive gene flow. Science Advances 4;4(4):eaap9873. 

Nilsson MA, Zheng Y, Kumar V, Philips MJ, Janke A  (2017) Speciation generates mosaic genomes in Kangaroos.  Genome Biology and Evolution, 7(4):985-92. 

Kumar V, Lammer F, Bidon T, Nilsson M, Pfeninger M, Janke A. (2017) The evolutionary history of bears is   shaped by gene flow across species. Scientific Reports 7:46487. 

Fennessy J, Winter S, Reuss F, Kumar V, Nilsson MA, Vamberger M, Fritz U, Janke A. (2017) Response to   "How many species of giraffe are there?" Current  Biology, 27(4):R137-R138. 

Fennessy J, Bidon T, Reuss F, Kumar V, Elkan P, Nilsson MA, Vamberger M, Fritz U, Janke A. (2016)    Multi-      locus analyses reveal four giraffe species instead of one. Current Biology, 26 (18), 2543-2549. 

Kumar V, Kutchera VE, Nilsson M, Janke A. (2015) Genetic signature of adaptation revealed from transcriptome sequencing of Arctic and red fox. BMC Genomics,16:585. 

Gallus S, Kumar V, Bertelsen MF, Janke A, Nilsson MA. (2015) A genome survey sequencing of the Java     mouse    deer (Tragulus javanicus) adds new aspects to the evolution of lineage specific retrotransposons in Ruminantia (Cetartiodactyla). Gene, 571(2):271-8. 

Gallus S, Janke A, Kumar V, Nilsson MA. (2015) Disentangling the relationship of the Australian marsupial    orders    using retrotransposon and evolutionary network analyses. Genome Biology and Evolution, 7(4):985-92. 

Gallus S, Hallstr?m BM, Kumar V, Dodt WG, Janke A, Schumann GG, Nilsson MA. (2015) Evolutionary        histories of transposable elements in the genome of the largest living marsupial carnivore, the    Tasmanian devil. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(5):1268-83. 

Kumar V, Hallstr?m BM, Janke A. (2013) Coalescent-based genome analyses resolve the early branches of the euarchontoglires. PLoS One, 8(4):e60019. 


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